I just found one of my favorite guilty pleasures on Netflix. Looks like tonight the lone wolf rides… alone.

Talk about some obscure comic book pulp! We’re not your classic heroes. We’re the other guys. One of the most overlooked superhero movies of 1999, Mystery Men was comic silver.

No, it wasn’t gold. It had it’s awkward moments. Yet, it gave us such memorable characters as The Shoveler, The Spleen, and Casanova Frankenstein. With a cast of brilliant comic talent like William H. Macy, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Hank Azaria, Paul Ruebens, Eddie Izzard and Geoffrey Rush, and some damn fine writing, it had everything befitting a great comedy movie. First time (and only time) director by Kinka Usher handled the visuals well. Even Greg Kinnear, not known for comedy of this type, made an amazing Captain… Amazing…

It was loosely based on Dark Horse’s Flaming Carrot… wait, really? Disco is NOT dead!

It did poorly in the theaters, making only $33,000,000 against a budget of $68,000,000.

Shades of superhero movies to come are found in this, as well as homages to those that came before it. The whole thing is timeless, and it’s renaissance is overdue!

Now go! Watch it! I say, what the fork! Let’s do it! And quote away! Cosplay some GREAT obscure superheroes at your next convention! You will be sure to get the looks!

OK, now I’m going back to graduate school. That was the agreement.

So, when they announced that Guardians of the Galaxy was to become a feature film, there were a lot of skeptics.

Now, I’m a comic book fan, but I had never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy. It is an obscure title, after all, in the Marvel universe. They and Disney must have realized the risk of producing such a film, because over the last few weeks, the emerging cast has surely whetted the appetites of many a movie goer.

So, a little bit of history is in order here. Guardians of the Galaxy first appeared in the partial reprint title Marvel Super-Heroes with issue #18, in January of 1969. They appeared sporadically in several Marvel titles over the years, in each case, other heroes such as Captain America, the Thing, and the Defenders aid them in their war against the alien Badoon. The Guardians were also featured in Marvel Presents #3–12, from February 1976 to August 1977.

There were a series of appearances in Thor, The Avengers, and other titles. A spin-off four-issue miniseries, Galactic Guardians (July–October 1994), followed.

In 2008, the team was relaunched. They were cancelled in 2010.

Producer Kevin Feige first hinted at a Guardians of the Galaxy film in 2010. Marvel Studios announced that the film was in active development at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2012. James Gunn entered negotiations to write and direct the film that August. In February 2013, Chris Pratt was hired to play Star-Lord, and the supporting cast was filled out over the next few months. Every new cast announcement was bigger than the last,  with Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker, Lee Pace, Ophelia Lovibond, and, most amazingly, Glenn Close, Karen Gillan and Benicio del Toro, who was just announced!

Filming is scheduled to begin in June 2013 at Shepperton Studios in London, England. The film is scheduled to be released on August 1, 2014.

When this crew hits the Comic Con in July, it’s a safe bet they are going to be big!

The 11th doctor, who fired onto the scene in 2012 with a new look for both himself and the TARDIS, has run his course.

Smith’s role as the timelord has had it’s ups and downs. Largely hated when he took over, he has become one of the most beloved of all the actors to play the character.

It is unknown at this time if John Hurt will replace him, or that the internet rumors of David Tennant returning are true. If this is the end of 11, that means only 2 more regenerations remain.

Someone call Benedict Cumberbatch…

‘Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon. Sad for everyone involved…I’ll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence…Anyway, we did our best, and we’re very proud of our team.’

This was the tweet from Zombieland co-creator Rhett Reese. Apparently he never watched his own movie.

In my review of the Zombieland series, I pointed out all the flaws that eventually made this series fail. The biggest is still the decision to cast Kirk Ward as Tallahassee. Most fans never even watched the pilot, after seeing the chunkhead choice on promotional material.

It’s really no surprise to see why it took so long for this show to get made. Perhaps Mr Reese might want to read my April 24th essay. Better yet, tune in to Twitter, and listen to your fans!

Back in March, The Sun reported Smith was leaving after series 7.

And, you know, there is still time for him to change his mind.

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Warner Bros. and CBS Consumer products announced they have formed a merchandising alliance between hit comedy, “The Big Bang Theory” and “Star Trek,”! DC Comics is in on the coolness, too!

They will be making a limited-edition collection of co-branded “Big Bang”/”Star Trek” merchandise, which will be available at Hot Topic retails stores and on HotTopic.com. It will include T-shirts and bobbleheads.

Hot Topic also will carry a new limited-edition T-shirt featuring the guys in their favorite DC Comics super hero costumes.

To promote the new collections, Warner Bros. and Hot Topic are having a contest!

Starting Monday and continuing through May 31, Go to www.BigBangContest.com or visit your local Hot Topic retail store to enter. The grand prize is a trip to San Diego Comic-Con! Tis a dork dream come true!

This last season has been, without a doubt, the weakest one since the 2005 return. Bringing the Ponds back for no good reason than to ‘kill’ them, fans around the world were outraged. I have not seen anything so confusing to everyone except the creator since Star Wars: Episode One.

I really have not seen any direction in Doctor Who for some time. Upon the exit of the Ponds, Moffat said the Doctor would become more of an ‘adult’. Well, putting on glasses and wearing a longer coat is how a 3 year old becomes more of an adult, but it isn’t gonna get you a pass at the liqueur store.

Moffat may have a grander plan for The Doctor, but most fans do not have the tenacity to wait and find out what that may or may not be. They want a bit of the payoff sooner. Moffat dangles carrot pieces in front of them. Pieces like the name of The Doctor. Right, like they are EVER going to let that out of the bag. Even if they did, it would most likely be a big let down, like learning that MacGgyver’s real name was Angus. Yeah, that was a spoiler. From 21 years ago.

One perfect example of Moffat’s lip service;  ’Journey To the Centre Of the TARDIS’ gave us some carrot bits, when Clara whizzed past parts of the ship we had only heard about, like the pool and the library. This was the end result of another big promise Moffat made about this season, that we we would get to see more of the ship. It’s this kind of cheap payoff that he has been doing for the last three years.

There was a bit of a bright spot with the addition of Clara, but even this is not enough. Her existence should have been enough of a challenge for The Doctor to fuel things for awhile, but her story seems to be just there as a backup for when this ‘new direction’  doesn’t pan out, which it isn’t.

I really don’t expect anything next week, or by the 50th. Last week there was a rumor going about that John Hurt was going to be playing some sort of ‘missing’ Who incarnation. Maybe he could reset the timeline, and Smith’s Doctor could be a bad Bobby Ewing dream.

No matter what, I just want Moffat and Smith to step down, so someone can get this series back on track.

Harryhausen may not be a household name now, but back in the day, he was the king of making fantasy come to life. Few people have not been touched by his magic.

Inspired by the work on ‘King Kong’, he became a master of his craft. He brought amazing creatures to life on the screen, in a process he dubbed ‘Dynamation’, in ways Rankin and Bass only dreamed about.

In 1949 he, along with Willis O’Brien, won the Academy Award for special effects, for the film ‘Mighty Joe Young’.

From Mighty Joe Young to The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad to Clash Of the Titans, his brand of animation was well known and loved. So much so that the movie ‘Spy Kids 2: the Island Of Lost Souls’ used CGI animation made to mimic his stop motion genius. It was, in my opinion, high praise.

His techniques are still the standard by which great talents like Tim Burton still employs. Even Star Wars owes a great debt of gratitude to Ray.

The world of fantasy and imagination owes a debt of gratitude to Ray Harryhausen. He will be missed.

Now, Giant Freaking Robot breaks this juggernaut of news.

John Hurt, the acclaimed actor who you remember as Olivander in Harry Potter, or Sutler in V For Vendetta, or Trevor Bruttenholm in Hellboy, is going to be joining Smith, Tennant, Piper and Coleman in the Doctor Who special. What is his role? No one knows for sure, but…

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!

According to spoilertv, he’s going to play the 9TH DOCTOR!

Yep. Apparently, the 9th is the 10th, the tenth is the eleventh and the eleventh is the twelfth! That is, if you believe this big ol’ rumor.

According to someone, Hurt’s doctor is a forgotten incarnation. My guess is something to do with the Time War.

Now, for another bit of 50th trivia you may have overlooked, Jemma Regrave will be making an appearance. Who? Why, she’s the niece of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, and a member of the Redgrave dynasty!

Now, back to the ninth doctor thing. I think this is all interwebz misdirection and folly. I guess we will wait… and wait…